Top Five Articles on GenomeWeb Last Week: Personal Genome Diagnostics, COVID-19, CDC, and More

May 04, 2020 | staff reporter

NEW YORK – What were the articles that gained the most interest from GenomeWeb readers last week? Here are the top five:

Foxtail Millet Pangenome, Graph-Based Reference Genome

Researchers in Nature Genetics described their generation of a foxtail millet pangenome, which they say can help in crop trait improvement.

An analysis in Genome Biology compares the lengths of proteins across more than 2,300 species, finding similar length distributions.

A team reports in Nature Genetics that it used glucose challenge test data to home in on candidate genes involved in GLUT4 expression or trafficking.

A paper in Cell reports that octopuses use RNA editing to help them adjust to different water temperatures.